XML

ALSO CALLED:
Extensible Markup Language,
X M LDEFINITION: Vector Markup Language (VML) is an XML-based language that facilitates the use of vector graphics on the Internet, especially on Web sites. VML was proposed to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) as a standard for vector graphics rendering by Microsoft, Autodesk, Macromedia and Visio in 1998 but was never formally accepted. Instead, it evolved, along with another proposed standard, into Scalable Vector
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XML DEFINITION (continued): Graphics (SVG), which came into widespread use in 2003. Even so, Microsoft implemented VML capability into its Internet Explorer 5.0 browser.Both VML and SVG describe images in vector format as an application of XML. Vector graphics is the creation of digital images in terms of mathematical statements that place lines and shapes in two-dimensional or three-dimensional space. Any program such as a Web browser that recognizes XML can display this type of image using the information provided in the VML or SVG formats. VML and SVG enable the viewing of an image on a display of any screen size and XML definition sponsored by SearchSOA.com, powered by WhatIs.com an online computer dictionary

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